Coccotrypes

Coccotrypes
Coccotrypes dactyliperda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Scolytinae
Tribe:	Scolytini
Genus:	Coccotrypes Eichhoff, 1878

Coccotrypes is a genus of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are about 130 described species in Coccotrypes. ^[1]

Coccotrypes dactyliperda

Species

• Coccotrypes advena Blandford, 1894 (seed borer)
• Coccotrypes carpophagus (Hornung, 1842)
• Coccotrypes cyperi Wood & Bright, 1992
• Coccotrypes dactyliperda (Fabricius, 1801) (date stone borer)
• Coccotrypes distinctus (Motschulsky, 1866)
• Coccotrypes indicus (Eggers, 1936)
• Coccotrypes persicae (Hopkins, 1915)

References

• Insects portal

1. "Coccotrypes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 13 May 2025.

• Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Coccotrypes
• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.